![]() ![]() Later that day, Grace is found dead in the lake near the hotel. One of the hotel guests, Grace Brown, asks Mattie to burn a pack of letters. The novel begins in the present day, with teenaged Mattie Cokey working at The Glenmore, a hotel on Big Moose Lake, to earn money during the summer. ![]() The novel is written in alternating chapters from the past and present. ![]() For the 70th anniversary of the Medal a few years later it was named one of the top ten winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. In the U.K., Bloomsbury published an edition within the calendar year, entitled A Gathering Light, and Donnelly won the 2003 Carnegie Medal, recognizing the year's outstanding book by a British author for children or young adults. Set in northern Herkimer County, New York in 1906, it is based on the murder of Grace Brown case -the basis also for An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925). A Northern Light, or A Gathering Light in the U.K., is an American historical novel for young adults, written by Jennifer Donnelly and published by Harcourt in 2003. ![]()
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